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TO AVOID VENEZUELA

North Atlantic Fleet Will NotOffend England.

CRESPO HAS YIELDED NOTHING.

lie fctill Hold* That Ike I'runn Inci-

dent and the Boundary Qaeatlon(.*ii2K>t IV> st^paraU-d.

Washington City, Dec. li.?Tb« pro-gramme of the maneuvers an 1 nfcrvemensof Admiral Bunce's North Atlanti squad-

ron has at length been arrarg d. Thenitron will depart from trie rendezvousat Htmplos Roads on th> 21s* inst., an ! it.la eipeeted to return to that place on May12 of next year. Tie first s*op wiil be a:St.the *nlps will be put m*o a num-ber of ports on the Ouif of Mexico andtn* Caribbean *ea. During the »-ay atTrinidad the squadron will have drlTl* andtarget practice In the bay of i'ara. just offthe Venezuelan coast, and near the terri-tory wniijii jc now In dispjte betweenGreat Britain and Venezuela. It Is a mat-ter of note, however, tha - at no point in ttieItinerary doe* the squadron «-nter * \ « ne-zueian port, and Admiral Bunce doubtless

is influenced }n this respect by the wishesof the department of state, for thebia« of an American fl-et In Venewieiaat this Juncture might l>e construed ts athreat, and In the end greatly complicatethe negotiations now in process with theBritish for'".«rn office over th< Venezuelanboundary question. To prevent any suchImpression from gaining groun 1, the navydepartment has been particular to stateexplicitly tha* the wlnt« r maneuver' of theNorth Atlantic squadron are absolutelyunlnfluer.ee;! by any fores* issues and aresimply In continuance of the summer drillsas outlined laat spring.

Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan ministerto the United States, has acablegram from c%ra